Wen Jiabao, Your opinions on the Premier. Options

[Wu Fei]

What do you peeps think of the current Premier of the People's Republic? Personally I think he's a being doing a good job in his position. Wen is generally popular with the Chinese people, and his modesty and more approachable personality is held to contrast with the bold and serious Hu Jintao. He made tremendous visits around China and has gone from country to country every often establishing good relations with other countries.

[ako]

He's a good man working for the wrong party.

[chilli21]

he loves sweet talks.

[Wu Fei]

He's a good man working for the wrong party.

Maybe to you, but apparently he's doing a great deal in serving his country and people.

A little about his Premiership from Wiki-

As premier, Wen has overseen China's economic reforms and has been involved in shifting national goals from economic growth at all costs to growth which also emphasizes more egalitarian wealth, along with other social goals, such as public health and education. In addition, the Chinese government under Wen has begun to focus on the social costs of economic development, which include damage to the environment and to workers' health. This more comprehensive definition of development has been encapsulated into the idea of a xiaokang society. Wen's broad range of experience and expertise, especially cultivated while presiding over agricultural policies under Zhu Rongji has been important as the "fourth generation" seeks to revitalize the rural economy in regions left out by the past two decades of reform.

Regarded as quiet and unassuming, he is said to be a good communicator and is known as a "man of the people." Wen has appeared to make great efforts to reach out those who seem left out by two decades of stunning economic growth in rural and especially western China. Unlike Jiang Zemin and his protégés on the Politburo Standing Committee, who form the so-called "Shanghai clique," both Wen and Hu hail from, and have cultivated their political bases in, the vast Chinese interior. Many have noted the contrasts between Wen and Hu, "men of the people" and Jiang Zemin, the flamboyant, multilingual, and urbane former mayor of the country's most cosmopolitan city. Jiang, unlike the more reserved Hu and Wen, is known to quote maxims from Chinese and Western philosophy and recite poetry in many languages.

Like President Hu Jintao, whose purported brilliance and photographic memory have facilitated his meteoric rise to power, Wen is regarded as well-equipped to preside over a vast bureaucracy in the world's most populated and perhaps rapidly changing nation. In March 2003, the usually self-effacing Wen was quoted as saying, "The former Swiss ambassador to China once said that my brain is like a computer," he said. "Indeed, many statistics are stored in my brain."

Mild-tempered and conciliatory, especially compared to his predecessor, the tough, straight-talking Zhu Rongji, his consensual management style has enabled him to generate a great deal of good will and little hostility in Beijing.

Wen has been involved in a two major episodes involving public health. In early 2003, he was involved in ending official inaction over SARS. In November 2003, he became the first major Chinese official to publicly address the problem of AIDS, which has devastated parts of the provinces of Yunnan and Henan and threatens to be a major burden on Chinese development. Since May 2004, Wen made various visits to communities devastated by AIDS. By showing these actions, Wen appeared to be attempting to reverse years of actions which many activists have seen as a policies of denial and inaction. Furthermore, Wen is concerned about the health and safety of previous drug addicts; since March 2004, Wen had visited several drug addict treatment facilities in southern China and addressed the issue to the patients in person.

Wen's many visits to relatively poor areas of China's countryside were conducted randomly -- to avoid elaborate preparations to appease officials and hide the real situation, which is done often in China. At committee meetings of the State Council, Wen made it clear that the rural wealth problem must be addressed. Along with President Hu Jintao, the "Three Rural Issues" of agriculture, rural areas, and farmers were highlighted as areas that need work and development. Like his predecessor, Zhu Rongji, Wen is generally seen as a popular communist official with the Chinese public.

Sounds like another Zhou Enlai from his achievements.

[xyz]

He looks like a traditional Chinese scholar, intellectually looking with a broad knowledge, and at the same time a down-to-earth public administrator. Premier Wen seems to be the right man for the job he's doing.

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[mobi3232]

I like the current Wen and Hu administration. Less flashy, more attentive to the people. They are certainly both intellectually qualified.

From Time

Less irascible and blunt than his hard-driving predecessor Zhu Rongji, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has earned the reputation of being a modest, even-tempered and practical person capable of getting things done through consensus. Along with President Hu Jintao, he is part of a leadership composed largely of technocrats rather than revolutionary military veterans. As Premier, Wen has guided China's tectonic economy, supporting continued economic reform and growth but also pointedly calling for greater emphasis on social equality for those who have been left out of the country's "economic miracle." Indeed, his expressions of concern for the plight of ordinary peasants and laborers, whose disaffection has manifested itself in an alarming increase in social unrest, have given him the image of being something of a populist. He has faced other political challenges: the AIDS crisis, SARS, China's worsening environmental problems. Wen, 63, has taken a relatively hard line on Beijing's claim to Taiwan, saying, "We don't hope for foreign intervention, but we are not afraid of it." Yet he has also taken pains to emphasize that in foreign policy, "the path embarked on by China is one of peaceful development," which he described recently as "the natural choice for China."

This post has been edited by mobi3232: May 6 2006, 12:23 AM

[Flowerseed]

It doesnt mean that I dislike him, but to me his predecessor is still better. In this position a strong person is more important than a good person. (and Mr. Zhu is a strong and good person.) Mr. Wen has done a good job so far, but I think he is a little bit too "soft" (compared with Mr. Zhu) which could be worrisome. Well, the solution for many problems he will encounter require strength above everything else.

[ako]

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Who can ever forget that moment?

[SevenEighthsAsia...]

[quote name='mobi3232' date='May 6 2006, 03:07 PM' post='1823907']
I like the current Wen and Hu administration. Less flashy, more attentive to the people. They are certainly both intellectually qualified.

Plus they look alike!